1.5 million to buy "Half Nielsen", Ye Wei is not joking, and he can afford it.

In fact, his net worth is more than the outside world estimates, and there are three main sources, "The Wedding is Coming", "Exorcism Video" and "VIY Said" column manuscript fees.

The income of "Little Sunshine Beauty" is still an account, and it is not so quick to divide the accounts.

"The Wedding is Coming" has long belonged to the family, and its North American box office has created a net profit of 3.2 million after tax for the Ye family, and the subsequent sharing of overseas copyright fees, video disc rental and sales, TV broadcast copyright fees, etc., has brought a large amount of income to Weiduo Image, and after tax sharing, the total profit of the Ye family has exceeded 10 million US dollars.

At first, Ye Wei also took money from it, invested in LMS, TET and personal use, and spent 2 million, but then he didn't get another point, and the financial rights of "The Wedding Date is Coming" were returned to his parents.

In fact, their family has long been able to buy a bigger and better residence, and then buy a seaside holiday villa, which is small and far away.

But they have always maintained a frugal style, Ye Haogen and Gu Qiao are not extravagant people after they become rich, and they don't want Ye Wei and Duoduo to be, especially the children's Duoduo.

Born in adversity and dying in peace, Gu Qiao believes that the growth environment of a middle-class family is the best, rich children are prone to arrogance and corruption, do not understand human suffering, and live in a dream bubble; poor children are easy to be shallow and humble, trapped in hardships every day, and struggle for daily needs.

The middle-class child is in between, neither humble nor arrogant, has a superior but normal family and life, and can grow up well.

Therefore, the whole family has created a still middle-class growth environment for Duoduo, and there is no living in a big villa, driving a luxury car or anything.

However, the money is not only stored in the bank to eat interest, Ye Haogen's dentist clinic is getting bigger and bigger, he loves his work and has found a new goal in life, and he is the first dentist in the United States; Gu Qiao is still the first child in the family, and he did not listen to Ye Wei to start a business, but he has made some financial investments, and he is also planning to set up an education charity fund.

What to invest in? Movies are a gamble played by stupid people, crazy people and monopoly, of course. At Ye Wei's suggestion, the Ye family bought a lot of stocks, and the stupid ones knew that they would buy emerging high-tech such as Google and Apple, and whoever bought movie stocks such as DreamWorks would lose money.

Although the dot-com bubble has only been around for a few years, everyone is desperate, and this is a good time to enter the market. The future definitely belongs to the Internet, and there is nothing to be afraid of investing in good companies. It turns out that these investments are making money.

This is not Ye Wei's management, the Ye family's family account and his personal account have been separated.

has been running the weekly column of LAT for nearly two years, and Ye Wei himself was surprised that he could hold on for so long, so that he has the identity of a media person, a film critic, and a writer all the time. More than one bookseller has contacted him to discuss cooperation, publish a column, or even a book novel.

How can he have so much time, sometimes he wants to stop the column, but he was born to talk a lot, and this is a little right to speak.

A weekly article is certainly not written for free, it is still a popular column. In the past two years, his manuscript fee has been rising, and this money is enough to maintain his personal daily expenses.

In fact, he didn't spend much money, and he had no desire for luxuries, and most he bought books, photographic equipment, movies and DVDs, and all kinds of peripherals.

If it used to be a million, it could be spent a day, and it was all bits and pieces.

But some of the purchases are beyond the scope of the column, like the 80,000-plus Coachmen RV.

The price of the Porsche 911 was more than 300,000 yuan, he didn't spend any money, his parents thought he bought it, but in fact it was delivered by Porsche, and he only had to pay taxes.

These car manufacturers have always wanted to give him a car to drive, and he will always be photographed by the paparazzi when he drives out on the street, "what car does VIY drive" is a kind of advertisement. He wasn't interested until recently when it was time to change cars, he asked for a Porsche sports car, try it, it's cool, girls like it.

Speaking of giving gifts, when she was in love with Nina before, Ye Wei gave her a gift that she doesn't remember how many, and she wanted to send it back after breaking up, what is it, she just loves to be blind and strong, he didn't ask for it. If she wants to throw it away, throw it away, including the Land Rover, which has long belonged to hers.

Gifts, flying flights, travel expenses, etc., as well as the salaries of his private team, the service fees of Attorney Sallton, Leslie Dart, Rachel Zoe, etc., and all sorts of courtesy PR fees.

There is also charity, he is keen to do good deeds, although he did not go to Africa, but there are donations to disasters such as the tsunami in South Asia and the Katrina gale, as well as some usual charity activities, and he has donated millions in the past two years.

Not counting "Dance of Angels", not counting the recent cost of helping deceived girls, which cost more than 500,000 and will continue to rise. He hoped that the more the better, which meant that the girls would take more courses.

What is intriguing is that the more than 500,000 yuan has basically been earned back in a draft, and the rating information has not been sold.

The outside world says that VIY is good charity, he feels that the world has really low moral requirements, and there are really few people like his mother, and a title of "good charity" can cover up a lot of willfulness and ugliness.

In any case, his total expenditure is really a lot, if it weren't for "Exorcism Video", not only would the financial rights of "The Wedding Date Are Coming" be handed back, but with this kind of spending money, he would even be as famous as many celebrities, he should be very rich, right?

No, it's struggling to get by. Just running the line and supporting the team is enough of a headache.

So it's not difficult to understand why filmmakers love to go in the direction of production, film investment is gambling, but once you succeed, you can get rich, and this uncertainty will always have a huge temptation. So box office miracles happen often? No, not a few times.

In "Blair the Witch", the gang did nothing after getting rich, and were busy spending money and enjoying themselves, and they went to court with the publisher artisan who shared the account unevenly. It's been 7 years now, and there are no new films.

"Exorcism Video" once, just that 1. The 4.2 billion North American box office brought Ye Wei a gross profit of about $25 million.

As with Half Nielsen at Si Motion Pictures, Lionsgate's contract with TET was originally a 55/45 ratio of zero upfront payment and gross profit sharing after deducting the total distribution fee. This is much more than the 35/65 of IFC and "The Wedding is Coming", the distributor can get a lot, and there is no connection + the result of a pseudo-documentary.

The total publicity fee of TET is 10 million, and Lionsgate is unambiguous during the exorcism dispute, and the distribution fee is 8.53 million, Ye Wei suspects a little too much, but because of the many cooperation with Lionsgate, this is an industry practice, and there is no time to argue, so he doesn't care about Lionsgate.

By now, maybe Jon and the others regretted taking that little extra money.

142.34 million * 52% = 7401. 60,000, minus 18.53 million = 5,548. 60,000, then *45%=2496. 80,000, this is the pre-tax rent that Cliff Movies gets.

This is the North American box office part, plus overseas copyrights, sequel copyrights, TV broadcasts, disc sharing, etc., and then Ye Wei can't remember how to pay taxes and how to benefit from taxes, and the mess has become a net profit of more than 35 million, and this number will continue to increase because of various shares.

The cost of TET is only 450,000 yuan!

$35 million, how many people can't make money in their lifetime, and it takes a while to get drunk and dream of dying every day before they are defeated, which is enough to sink the gang of "Blair the Witch".

But Ye Wei has not spent much, nor has he been immersed, living the life of an ordinary student, most of the money is spent on team operation, public relations, charity, and distributing bonuses to the TET crew, 35 million has become 30 million.

Then there's the film investment, not counting his own three projects that have not yet been implemented, spending 600,000 yuan to buy "VIY" and 300,000 yuan to invest in Dalum for their family comedy project "Dog's-Christmas" (Cliff Films has a 45% stake and will start filming soon), which is a commercial film that targets DVD and TV.

29 million is not his actual net worth, a lot of money has already been used for stock investment, and it has risen very well, and his available personal property is actually nearly 40 million US dollars.

This is more than double the external estimate of 15 million to 20 million.

So spending 1.5 million to buy "Half Nielsen", Ye Wei has no pressure, and the promised at least 100 theaters can be done.

This movie is really a good movie, he doesn't want to bargain, and he didn't buy it to make money, it's better to buy a house to make money, it's a really good movie! But he thinks that he won't lose money, such a good film, as long as he holds a film critic's screening and runs more film festivals to promote, it will naturally become famous, what are you afraid of.

If you lose, you lose, and that's it when you make movies, you make money and you lose money.

He would rather lose money on good movies than be confused by increasing wealth, one of the main uses of money is to make himself happy, and movies will make him happy.

Now not much is sure to be happy.

......

Whether to sell or not is a decision for Patrikov and others to discuss, whether the deal is successful or not, Ye Wei wants to make friends with the Flecks, he likes their talents.

After leaving Starbucks, the three of them walked back to the Redstone Theater and chatted about making movies, although there was a film festival, the spacious streets still seemed quiet, the low-rise buildings on both sides were very classical, the blue sky seemed to be connected to the overhead, and the distant hills were in front of them.

"I made 'Exorcism Video' very quickly, but really, that's the way a B-movie is. It only takes 23 days to make a feature film, and you must have something to teach me. ”

Listening to Ye Wei's expectant words, Ryan Flake and Anna Burton didn't know where to start for a while. They are all 12 years older than him, but Ye Wei is a Best Director nominee for the Golden Globe Awards, Directors Guild and so on, so he should teach it.

"I think it's all about controlling the number of shots. "We had a limited budget and had to shoot within a limited date, so we had to shoot as many shots as we could. His rosacea nose was red, and he smiled bitterly: "We also want to shoot more material, but we can't afford it." ”

Ye Wei nodded, "Yes, the life and death line of the budget is the biggest enemy, but my bigger problem now is a matter of time." ”

It's very bad to say this to them, but it's a fact, he has enough budget, but he doesn't have enough time, and he may not be able to spend overtime every day for a month, not to mention that the crew of the iron fight has to rest and take vacation. So it's not that there is no money that makes it impossible to shoot, it's that the short time leads to not enough shooting.

"What do you guys think?" he asked earnestly.

The envy of the two was almost qualitative, and Flake thought and said, "I will spend more money on the formation of the crew and hire better personnel." Burton replied: "It's also a way to hire more people, one more film crew, more cameras, and more materials, the more likely you can shoot in a limited time." ”

These Ye Wei also thought about it, and muttered: "I'm making a choice...... "Soul Surfer" is about to start, and he hasn't decided yet, and he seems to be suffering from selectivity disorders. The director has a selectivity barrier, it's so funny.

The three of them continued to walk and talk, talking about storyboards, digital shooting, and time-saving tips, all excited about each other's talents.

When I returned to the small square in front of the Redstone Theater, it was also back to the bustle, and people came in and out of the theater gate. At this time, Ye Wei saw a figure, and was immediately stunned, said goodbye to the Flecks, and strode away with interest.

The old white man was dressed in a casual black coat, tall and mighty, bald with little hair left, a somewhat old-fashioned face that seemed to be smiling, and two nasolabial folds were very deep.

Hollywood superstar, Bruce Willis.

"The Leading Dog" premiered tonight, and although Willis is only a supporting actor, he came to cheer on his old friend Nick Kasowitz.

"Hey, Mr. Willis. ”

Hearing this call, Willis, accompanied by three entourages, turned his head and saw the black-haired young man coming over, his eyes gathered, and his nasolabial folds deepened, which was quite surprising.

It's been two years, and it's the first time the two have seen each other since a production meeting at the company's headquarters in Cheyenne in January 2004.

"I haven't seen you for a long time!" Ye Wei said with a smile, stretching out his right hand with a black glove.

"Boy, I haven't seen you in a long time. After shaking his hand, Willis waved his hand to let his entourage walk away, smiling, "You have changed a lot." ”

"It's changed a few times. Ye Wei shrugged, "Even I can't recognize myself." ”

Two years ago, 16-year-old Ye Wei had not yet grown, and he was short of Willis by a head, but now his height has surpassed Willis, and he is completely level with each other, and his vigorous body is more powerful than Lao Bu, who is no longer muscular but has a slight belly.

The two walked to the southeast side of the theater, and soon they reached the side of the open and uninhabited wilderness road, looking at the barren hills in the distance, walking and chatting.

"You know, Sheriff, I've always thanked you for your initial appreciation, but I really hate your treachery. I think you're a mean villain, but recently I've had a different opinion, something happened to me, I can't say to everyone, it's just, I and you have times when you are mean, when you hurt others and yourself......

So, I forgive you, it's okay if you don't care, on my side, we're fine. ”

Ye Wei no longer has to think about what Willis thinks about every sentence like he did at the beginning, just say it with a big grin, there is nothing to worry about.

Now only he can make Ye Wei unable to make a movie, no one else can.

"Boy. Willis was not angry when he said he was a mean villain, he was still smiling, and the corners of his mouth twitched, "I can't say I don't care, this matter often makes me angry, not for you, for our people." I can tell you, I regret it. ”

is so breezy and calm, the two show their respective attitudes, they can't see through each other's minds, but they can see each other's postures.

Ye Wei smiled, Willis also smiled, the two men, one young and one old, don't need to say anything, although it is unlikely that they will become good friends, they want to reconcile, and they reconcile.

"I will not resist the opportunity for us to work together. Ye Wei said.

"There's a chance, there's a chance. Willis nodded his head.

When it comes to cooperation, the two talked about Ramo's participation in the draft, Ye Wei bluntly said that her acting skills are terrible, and Willis said coldly: "Don't mess with my daughter." ”

"No, absolutely not. Ye Wei's right hand couldn't help but clench his fist, remembering something, "She's the kind of girl I will never touch." ”

......

The news that VIY was going to buy "Half Nielsen" for more than 1.5 million quickly spread, and Sundance was a small sensation.

"He's crazy. Daniel Batsek, the current CEO of Miramax, shook his head, "Of course I don't follow the price, it can't make money, and there is a distance between quality and impact the awards season." ”

""Half Nielsen" is good, not so good that it is worth a 1.5 million buyout. "The two giants of Weinstein Pictures, Harvey and Bob, are not interested, not before, and not now.

Lionsgate was aroused, but it couldn't fight, and if it did, it would be a big loss.

Fox Searchlight, Focus, Warner, New Line...... 1 million can also be considered, 1.5 million is guaranteed to be distributed by 100 theaters?

VIY is not a stupid person, but obviously he doesn't understand the market when he comes to Sundance for the first time, how can anyone fight with him, he is the one who is wronged.